Physische Reichweite (Archiv)

Physische Reichweite (Archiv)

Moritz Knopp

This project, on the occasion of the corona crisis, visualizes the flexibility of human-made borders. The crisis disempowers humankind from its self-created borders and makes the movable. the degree to which borders change usually varies from individual to individual. The actual movement of borders is determined ba certain parameters. For this project the physical reach was analyzed by the parameter profession, using data sets from an online dating-service.

A project made in the course

Studio Image | The End of the Global World? Visual (Counter-) Narratives of Territory and Identity

Studio IMAGE | BA Major in Art Although initially developed by the US military, the World Wide Web of the 1990s ironically seemed to promise the ultimate utopia of a globally connected world with no restrictions. Most diverse communities emerged, beyond concepts of a jus soli or a jus sanguinis. The place of birth seemed to become as irrelevant as the question where one’s parents were citizens of. In the meantime, the Internet has become the space for hate speech, offensive imagery and nationalistic narratives.
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